What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files stored on your browser or device when you visit a website. Similar technologies, such as local storage, session storage, pixels, and tags, can store or read information for related purposes. Some cookies last only for a browsing session, while others remain until they expire or you delete them.
Dhaka City uses these technologies to operate the website, understand how content performs, remember preferences, support security, manage advertising, and store consent choices where required. Cookies do not usually identify you by name on their own, but they can be linked to a browser, device, network, or advertising identifier.
Essential Cookies
Essential cookies are needed for the website to work properly. They may support page delivery, security, fraud prevention, load balancing, form protection, browser preferences, and consent storage. Because these cookies are necessary for core operation, they may be used even when you decline optional cookies, depending on applicable law.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use Dhaka City. They can show which articles are read, how readers arrive at the site, which devices are common, which pages load slowly, and which topics need better coverage. This information helps us improve navigation, content quality, and technical performance.
We may use Google Analytics or similar tools. Analytics data may include page URLs, event information, approximate location, browser details, device type, referral source, and timestamps. Where consent is required, analytics cookies should be controlled through a consent message or browser settings.
Advertising Cookies
Advertising cookies may be used by Google AdSense, Google advertising services, or other advertising partners to show ads, limit ad repetition, measure ad performance, detect invalid traffic, and personalize ads where allowed. Advertising cookies may connect your visit to Dhaka City with visits to other websites or apps.
In some regions, personalized advertising requires consent. If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, or another region where a consent choice is required, our goal is to present a consent management message before optional advertising cookies are used where required. You may be able to choose consent, do not consent, or manage options depending on the message configuration.
If you decline personalized advertising, you may still see ads. Those ads may be contextual, limited, or based on less specific information depending on the ad product, region, and consent signal. Declining advertising cookies does not remove every ad from the website, but it should limit optional processing where the choice applies.
Consent Management
A consent management platform may store your choices so the website and advertising partners know whether you consented to certain purposes. This can include choices for storing information on a device, selecting basic ads, creating a personalized ads profile, selecting personalized ads, measuring ad performance, measuring content performance, understanding audiences, and developing services.
You can usually reopen or change consent choices through the consent tool if it is available in your region. If the consent message is not visible, you can use browser settings to delete cookies or reset stored choices. Deleting cookies may cause the consent message to appear again.
Consent choices may be stored in cookies or local storage by the consent management provider. These records help prevent the same message from appearing on every page and help communicate your choices to advertising and analytics systems. If you use a different browser, device, or private browsing session, you may need to set your choices again.
Managing Cookies
Most browsers allow you to block, delete, or restrict cookies. Browser settings vary, so check your browser help documentation for exact steps. If you block all cookies, parts of the website may not work as expected, and preferences such as dark mode or consent status may not be remembered.
You may also use controls offered by advertising providers, including Google's ad personalization settings where available. These controls are provided by third parties and may change over time.
Examples of Cookie Purposes
Operational cookies may remember a theme preference, support page rendering, protect forms, or help detect suspicious requests. Measurement cookies may count visits, identify popular articles, and show whether readers find content through search, social media, or direct links. Advertising cookies may help select ads, measure impressions, prevent repetitive ads, and detect invalid traffic.
The exact cookies present on a page can change depending on features, consent status, third-party scripts, ad inventory, browser settings, and region. For that reason, this policy describes categories and purposes rather than promising a fixed cookie list that will never change.
Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when we change analytics tools, advertising partners, consent management settings, website features, or legal requirements. The latest version will be published on this page.